example, doing 'fping google.com' is going to ping the IPv6 IP of
google.com on IPv6-enabled hosts.
- If you need exact compatibility with old versions, you can configure
- and install fping twice: once for ipv4, and once for ipv6:
+ If you need exact compatibility with old versions, you can configure and
+ install fping twice: once for ipv4, and once for ipv6:
- ./configure --disable-ipv6; make clean install
- ./configure --disable-ipv4 --program-suffix=6; make clean install
* INCOMPATIBILITY WARNING 3:
fping will now discard replies, if they arrive after the defined timeout
for reply packets, specified with -t. This change is relevant only for for
- the counting and looping modes, where now the measured times should be
+ the counting and looping modes, where the measured times should now be
more consistent (see github issue #32 for details).
To prevent loosing reply packets because of this change, the default
- timeout in counting and looping modes is now automatically adjusted
- to the period interval (up to 2000ms), but it can be overriden with
- the -t option. The default timeout for non-looping/counting modes
- remains 500ms.
+ timeout in counting and looping modes is now automatically adjusted to the
+ period interval (up to 2000 ms), but it can be overriden with the -t
+ option. The default timeout for non-looping/counting modes remains 500 ms.
* (feature) Unified 'fping' and 'fping6' into one binary (#80)
* (feature) Long option names for all options